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GOOD HORSES, SCARCE THE WORLD OVER. "From all parts of the. world come reports of the scarcity of good horses," says a writer in the Toronto Sunday World. "Mr. George T. Davies is on his way back from France, where he vent .to buy some Percherohs -for his father, Mr. Robert Davies, but found not only were they held at a high price, but that the drain to the Ulted Statea had been so great that the French government had stepped in and prohibited the exportation of any more for this year , at least. Mr. Davies also tried to buy some marcs by Cyllene, sire 6f the Derby winner, Cicero, and of the Cambridgeshire winner, Polymelus, but was politely told that one could not bo had under 1,000 guineas ,000. fMr. Robert Belth has the same tale to tell regarding good quality Hackneys. Ho succeeded in picking up a few, Including one real crackerjaeir, but. in every instance the prices were decidedly stiff compared with what they were a . few years ago. Messrs. A. arid W,frMontgoiei-y talk in the same strain regarding Clydesdales. The country i3 being depleted and either poor horses have to bo taken nt exhorbltnnt prices or figures,. paid for, the best that a year or two ago would have been regarded as startling. "Speaking of Clydesdales, I asked ah expert, perhaps the most progressive .and most enterprising breeder in the country, if he did not think Canadian-bred Clydes had been improved remarkably. Yes, he said, they have undoubtedly tome forward! but not nearly so much as the Imported horses have goue back. The animals coming over here now are not nearly ,s.o massive and muscular as those brought across the Atlantic fifteen and twenty years ago, but they are doubtless the best that can be got at the prices our. people fancy they can afford to pay. "
